Happy Thanksgiving!
November 25th, 2009 categories: My Favorite....
This is by far my most favorite holiday. Turkey, lots of fun with family, food and pumpkin pie that I make from scratch.
Pumpkin Pie From Scratch
This year I’ve added a new and daunting aspect to my pumpkin pie. This year I’m diving off the
cliff and making my pie with fresh crust not store bought crust.
In the past, I thought that I just didn’t possess the kitchen / baking prowess to create my own crust. That was until I went to our friends and past clients, Rick and Belinda Davis.
Belinda is from Oklahoma originally and has that southern charm that just makes ya want to give her a kiss every time she opens her mouth. She is just so sweet!
Along with being from the south comes the easy kitchen prowess. She whipped up homemade crust like pouring milk into a bowl of Cheerios, she made it look that easy. It was delicious!
Fortunately for me, she was willing to share her recipe with me. But as I don’t have her permission to share it with you, you’ll have to do some major sucking up to get it! 
No, you should be able to find it all over the internet along with my recipe for Eagle Brand Pumpkin Pie.
Here is a link to the recipe that I’ve used to make “the best pumpkin pie I’ve ever had” for 20 years. Mess with the spices to taste and don’t get too locked in to the recipe spices if you can avoid it. Following the instructions make it just about dummy proof.
I add a little cloves, a bit more cinnamon than it calls for cause that’s the way my wife likes it. (mother in law had the cloves idea)
The difference for me is that I use pumpkins, clean, peel and boil to get the meat where it’s pie ready. I don’t use pumpkin from a can….NOT that there’s anything WRONG with that! If you go this route, use sugar / baking pumpkins not the jack o’ lantern variety.
I hope you have many things, as I do, to be grateful for. I know a lot of us have had a tough time with the economy and such. It really serves to prove that the only things that really matter are family, love and giving to one another.
Those things can’t evaporate in a recession, be foreclosed on or sold short. You don’t have to get approval from a bank, write 50 offers or give 4 pints of blood to qualify! You’re in!
Get out there and have an awesome holiday!
Wishing you abundance and joy………..
Thanks for visiting! I’m most grateful that you have.
What a nice post! Wishing you a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!